Study Finds Londoners Take the Most Miserable Selfies

When it comes to selfies Londoners are guilty of taking some of the most miserable snaps on the planet, according to research commissioned by Somerset House for its Big Bang Data Exhibition.

The Big Bang Data Exhibition, a new project from selfiecity, collected selfies from Bangkok, London, Berlin, Moscow, New York and Sao Paulo. A team of media researchers, data scientists and information designers then used the images in order to compare and contrast a bunch of interesting things, like emotional expression, physical poses, gender and different age ranges.

The findings show that, using ReKognition face analysis software, London has an average of 0.55 on the happiness emotion scale (with 1 being the most happy) in comparison to the 0.62 average of other cities in the study.

Although the study shows that Londoners are more miserable, on average they're also older than selfie posers from the other cities. The average selfie age here is 28 and 26.3 elsewhere. Which means as well as being sadder than your average city, London is also full of embarrassing selfie snappers, despite the fact they're all older and should know way better. Time to cheer up London and stop being so damn narcissistic.